WORLD,
LIVING IN

THE FARTHER you go down in the ocean, the more pressurized the ocean becomes. The farther you go down, the more you will be squashed. If you go down deep enough, the ocean’s pressure will flatten you out like a pancake. The deeper you go, the greater the pressure is.

When the divers went looking for the Titanic, they had to make the trip in a small, pressurized submarine. It’s a little podlike thing that a diver sits in when he intends to go deep. If a diver went to investigate the Titanic on the bottom of the ocean without a submarine, he would be totally destroyed because the pressure in his body is less than the pressure in the water. His body would collapse because of the outside pressure in the water. Even though the water is squeezing against the submarine trying to collapse it, it cannot because the sub has been pressurized. The diver can go deeper and deeper, and still remain safe and secure because the pressure on the inside is greater than the pressure on the outside.

Most Christians leave church every Sunday only to go out into the world and be under pressure. They are under pressure at work, at home, and in their various circumstances. Satan is trying to collapse them. Some people have headaches because the pressure is too great. Some people are stressed because the pressure is too great. Some people are ill because the pressure is too great.

Here’s the thing—we cannot tell the ocean to stop pressurizing us. That’s the nature of going deep in this world. The deeper you go, the more pressure you are going to get. The world can’t help but pressure you. But greater is the pressure inside of you than the pressure outside of you. If you go deep on the inside, then when you’re pressured on the outside, you won’t cave in.1053

[Holy Spirit, Power of]

John 16:33; 1 John 4:4